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Sensitive Freakshows: The Man with 19 Penises

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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A trailer for a supposedly sensitive TV documentary follows a young man with 19 penises around his house while its narrator invites viewers to stare without guilt.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Alan, a long-haired young man in tracksuit bottoms, tells a documentary crew that having 19 penises has not made him any more of a man, and that as a child he assumed everybody was built the same way. The camera follows him as he moves stiffly around his kitchen, fills the kettle and edges up the stairs to the bathroom, while an unseen narrator teases what can only be shown after the watershed and bills the film as part of a season about people whose bodies grew the wrong way, a chance for a good look with a clear conscience. After a long wait outside the closed bathroom door, Alan comes back out for a mop and bucket, and the trailer closes on a Five caption promising the programme later tonight.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 1

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Alan has 19 penises, which, after the watershed, we can show you.

To start with, you just think it's normal. You think everyone's got 19 penises.

You get the chance to have a good old stare without feeling guilty.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

David Mitchell voices the unseen narrator. This is the last of three Sensitive Freakshows trailers in Series 2, after the boy with an arse for a face (Episode 1) and the woman with a second head (Episode 2).

ScriptEnglish · 6 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    Alan

    You'd think it makes you 19 times more the man, but it doesn't.

  2. 00:04

    Speaker 1

    Alan has 19 penises, which, after the watershed, we can show you. Come on, that's got to be worth a look.

  3. 00:14

    Alan

    I mean, to start with, you just think it's normal. You think everyone's got 19 penises.

  4. 00:19

    Speaker 1

    Continuing our people-who've-grown-into-spectacularly-the-wrong-shape season, you get the chance to have a good old stare without feeling guilty. that's the man who had so many penises he was worth making a television program about later tonight

  5. 00:34

    okay Roll up. Roll up.

  6. 00:46

    OK, so the RSPCA are looking for a song to go on their new advert they're trying to catch some criminals who've been letting dogs out of their kennels so basically

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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